{..} for he was in one of those crises in which the whole

{..} for he was in one of those crises in which the whole soul shows indistinctly what it contains, like the ocean, which, in the storm, opens itself from the seaweeds on its shores down to the sands of its abysses.

📖 Gustave Flaubert

🌍 French | 👨‍💼 Novelist

🎂 December 12, 1821 – ⚰️ May 8, 1880

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